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Refutation of All Heresies 8.13.4

Hippolytus of Rome · Refutation of All Heresies · ca. 222–235 · Rome · Read in context

Authorship disputed: The work names no author. Book 1 was long printed among Origen's works as the Philosophumena; after books 4–10 were found in a manuscript from Mount Athos (published 1851), it was assigned to Hippolytus, the usual view today, though some scholars ascribe it to another Roman writer of the same circle. Books 2 and 3 are lost, and book 4 lacks its beginning.

Summary: Everything in the world came from only a part of the Son of Man, who is the single iota flowing from above.

Greek text · Duncker–Schneidewin, 426–428

Τὸ δὲ κάλλος ἐκείνου τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου μέχρι νῦν πᾶσίν ἐστιν ἀκατάληπτον ἀνθρώποις, ὅσοι περὶ τὸ γέννημα τῆς θηλείας εἰσὶ πεπλανημένοι. Γέγονεν οὖν, φησίν, ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐκείνου οὐδὲν τῶν ἐνθάδε, οὐδὲ ἔσται πώποτε, τὰ δὲ γεγονότα πάντα οὐκ ἀπὸ ὅλου, ἀλλὰ ἀπὸ μέρους τινὸς γέγονε τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου. Ἔστι γὰρ, φησίν, ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἰῶτα ἕν, μία κεραία, ῥυεῖσα ἄνωθεν, πλήρης, ἀποπληροῦσα πάντας, ἔχουσα ἐν ἑαυτῇ, ὅσα καὶ ὁ ἄνθρωπος ἔχει, ὁ πατὴρ τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου.

English · Claude translation

And the beauty of that Son of Man is until now incomprehensible to all people who have gone astray about the offspring of the woman. Nothing of the things here, then, he says, came into being from that Man, nor ever will; but all things that have come into being have come not from the whole but from some part of the Son of Man. For the Son of Man, he says, is one iota, one stroke, flowing down from above, full, filling all, having in itself whatever the Man too has, the Father of the Son of Man.

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Source
Duncker–Schneidewin, 426–428 · Ludwig Duncker and F. G. Schneidewin, eds., S. Hippolyti episcopi et martyris Refutationis omnium haeresium librorum decem quae supersunt (Göttingen: Dieterich, 1859); section divisions from Paul Wendland, ed., Hippolytus Werke 3: Refutatio omnium haeresium, GCS 26 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1916) · Greek text: L. Duncker and F. G. Schneidewin, Refutationis omnium haeresium (Göttingen, 1859), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library; section divisions from P. Wendland (GCS 26, 1916), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin); both CC BY-SA 4.0
Text
As printed in Duncker–Schneidewin. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
Translation
Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Duncker–Schneidewin; made independently of existing English translations.
Compare
Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 5 (1886) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made) · Its chapter numbers differ from the standard (Wendland) numbering used here.
Topics
Heresy, Christology

Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (wrong accent: οὖν): Γέγονεν οὗν → Γέγονεν οὖν.

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Hippolytus, Haer. 8.13.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/8/13/4/).

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Hippolytus, Haer. 8.13.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/hippolytus-refutatio/8/13/4/).

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